When the former power producer couldn’t settle his beef with Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz, a who’s who of industry players became embroiled in the feud. The question is, why?
In April 2019, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel and Ron Meyer, then vice chairman of NBCUniversal, made their way to Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz’s compound at the Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert, about 15 miles east of Palm Springs.
The two top Hollywood players were on a mission to help their friend, high-rolling producer Joel Silver, whose deal with his latest financial backer had, unsurprisingly, fallen into acrimony. The shaggy-haired Katz who had built a drugstore chain into an empire that includes the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers as well as the arena in which t…
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